Heather Brooke

From one piece What’s Love got to do with Social Media? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Tech leaders are modern-day Dr Frankensteins who build technology to improve life without understanding what makes life meaningful.

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  It seems obvious to me that techbros (and they are all bros) are modern-day Dr Frankensteins. They build technology to ‘improve’ life, while having no understanding of what makes life meaningful.

  What’s Love got to do with Social Media?heatherbrooke.substack.com

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  Fragmented attention and a weakened grasp of truth make people easier to manipulate, which helps would-be dictators.

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  Once our attention is fragmented and our understanding of truth weakened, we become easier to manipulate.

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  Social media platforms exploit our desire for connection while making genuine connection harder.

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  Social media platforms exploit our desire for connection while making genuine connection harder.

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  Turning a structural problem like addictive technology into an individual responsibility is the familiar trick of extractive capitalism.

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  This is the familiar trick of extractive capitalism: turn a structural problem into an individual responsibility.

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From one piece Why do we think death is unnatural? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Death has a lot to teach us, and we would be better off facing it head on.

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  Death has a lot to teach us and we would be better off facing it head on.

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  The West fears death more than cultures where dead bodies are part of everyday life, partly because it rarely sees death in its physical reality.

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  I think this is one reason we fear death so much more in the West than in cultures where dead bodies are an everyday part of life.

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  Wanting privacy from powerful agents such as the state is entirely natural, not a sign of wrongdoing.

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  But our desire not to be snooped on by powerful agents is entirely natural.

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  Instead of technology accommodating people, people have been persuaded to become more machine-like to accommodate the technology.

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  One of the ironies about technology is that instead of it working to accommodate us, we humans have been persuaded to become more machine-like to better accommodate the technology.

  Humans are works of art, not machinesheatherbrooke.substack.com

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  Animal Farm

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  It was a toss-up between Animal Farm and 1984.

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  Inherit the Wind

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  You can dramatise an issue through a play, as in Inherit the Wind.

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  All the King’s Men

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  All the King’s Men is a fictionalised story based on real people, and Malan uses his own life story.

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  The White Hotel

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  The White Hotel runs the gamut – it starts off with an erotic poem, there’s a short story, a pseudo-journal entry, letters, but overall it is a novel.

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